Judgment and Restoration (ISA 32:9-20)

[32:9] You women who live an easy life, free from worries, listen to what I am saying.

[32:10] You may be satisfied now, but this time next year you will be in despair because there will be no grapes for you to gather.

[32:11] You have been living an easy life, free from worries; but now, tremble with fear! Strip off your clothes and tie rags around your waist.

[32:12] Beat your breasts in grief because the fertile fields and the vineyards have been destroyed,

[32:13] and thorn bushes and briers are growing on my people's land. Weep for all the houses where people were happy and for the city that was full of life.

[32:14] Even the palace will be abandoned and the capital city totally deserted. Homes and the forts that guarded them will be in ruins forever. Wild donkeys will roam there, and sheep will find pasture there.

[32:15] But once more God will send us his spirit. The wasteland will become fertile, and fields will produce rich crops.

[32:16] Everywhere in the land righteousness and justice will be done.

[32:17] Because everyone will do what is right, there will be peace and security forever.

[32:18] God's people will be free from worries, and their homes peaceful and safe.

[32:19] (But hail will fall on the forests, and the city will be torn down.)

[32:20] How happy everyone will be with plenty of water for the crops and safe pasture everywhere for the donkeys and cattle.

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